Archive for March, 2009

Sticky: Do Something Funny For Money

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Today in the UK is Red Nose Day and millions of people up and down the country will be doing something funny for money. The charity behind Red Nose Day is Comic Relief whose aim is a ‘just world free from poverty’ and they have been raising awareness for their big day through a multi-format […]

Avanti Launch Art By Chance Short Film Festival

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We first wrote about this film festival just before Christmas in our post ‘Art For Art’s Sake (No Money For God’s Sake)‘ and it’s thrilling to see Avanti throw themselves at the opportunity that it affords. Billed as the ‘largest public art event ever’ the UK festival is part of a wider global event – […]

Huge 103″ Screen At Benetton

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Huge Panasonic 103” Plasma screen in the United Colours of Benetton’s flagship store on Oxford Street, London. The screen was installed by 103” experts PSCo, using a bespoke stand to secure the screen onto the wall.

Self-Service Information Takes Off At Stansted

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This new network of Smart Points and screens went live at Stansted Airport’s terminal extension back in December 2008 and is, we are told, setting new records for passenger enquiries via the Cityspace flagship broadcast and interactive terminals shown here. Steve Farias, Terminal Operations Manager at Stansted Airport told us “We had almost 14,000 interactive […]

Airport Express Coaches, Norway

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Einar Linge Schwaiger, Founder and Head of Business Development at Urban Media sent us this picture of one of his new screens on the Airport Express Coaches – the network in Norway is called TRANSIT. We previously covered the TRANSIT network back in early January when we announced that it was expanding to something like […]

Virgin Trains Interactive Poster

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We simply love this campaign for Virgin Trains new Virgin High Frequency (VHF) service (a service which is set to go live in May) and is running as a very inventive interactive digital poster up on Ocean Outdoor’s giant LED screen in Liverpool put together by MCBD/Elvis and Manning Gottlieb OMD. Take a careful look […]

IPTV World Forum 2009

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This year’s IPTV World Forum is being held in Olympia, London on 25th to 27th March 2009 See http://www.iptv-forum.com/ for more details

After All, It’s Just PCs And Screens

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Why is it do you think that the traditional OOH folks seem to believe that they don’t need a skilled engineering, technology or digital workforce? Hot on the heels of CBS Outdoor letting a lot of their good engineering folks go in the UK over the last 6 months, news reaches us that Clear Channel […]

Advertisers Get Trove Of Clues In Smartphones

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Raffi Vartian, Co-Founder/VP, ContinuumMobile, LLC will tell you that with his technology your phones don’t need to be that ‘smart’ to do a lot of this, but very interesting article nonetheless over on IHT entitled ‘Advertisers get a trove of clues in smartphones‘ which is well worth a read.

UK Fund To Help Technology / Media Firms

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Andrew and Robert Rickman, well known in our local area of Oxford (and indeed Wiltshire) have recently launched a Euro 100 million technology fund wishing to invest in UK businesses with the potential for international expansion. The Rockley Follow-on Fund is aimed at established technology companies and is looking at… Energy Sustainability Media Data Management […]